{"id":37431,"date":"2025-12-22T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=37431"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:33:18","slug":"julian-assange-says-peace-prize-has-become-instrument-of-war-and-sues-nobel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=37431","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange says peace prize has become \u201cinstrument of war\u201d and sues Nobel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An article from the Peoples Dispatch<\/a> (reprinted according to Creative Commons \u00a0Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license)<\/p>\n

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange\u00a0filed a criminal complaint on Tuesday, December 17<\/a>, against the Nobel Foundation, accusing 30 members of the organization, including its chairwoman and executive director, of involvement in serious crimes under Swedish law. The action challenges the Norwegian Nobel Peace Committee\u2019s decision to\u00a0award this year\u2019s prize\u00a0<\/a> to far-right Venezuelan politician\u00a0Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Assange is requesting the immediate freezing of 11 million Swedish kronor (approximately USD 1.18 million) scheduled to be transferred to Machado, arguing that awarding the prize completely distorts the principles expressed in Alfred Nobel\u2019s will, which stipulated that the prize should go to whoever worked for fraternity among nations and the reduction of standing armies.<\/p>\n

In the complaint submitted to Sweden\u2019s Economic Crimes Authority and War Crimes Unit, Assange maintains that\u00a0the selection of Mar\u00eda Corina <\/a>\u00a0\u201cconverted an instrument of peace into an instrument of war.\u201d The legal filing mentions possible crimes including misappropriation of funds, facilitation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as financing the crime of aggression. Assange argues that \u201cMachado\u2019s incitement of the largest US military buildup since the Iraq war makes her categorically ineligible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0Machado\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize \u201cstained with blood,\u201d social movements warn<\/a><\/p>\n

The document lists recent public statements by the Venezuelan politician, such as explicit support for the United States\u2019 military strategy in the Caribbean, her advocacy for military intervention in the South American country, and alignment with the offensive by Donald Trump, the US president reelected in 2024. \u201cAlfred Nobel\u2019s endowment for peace cannot be spent on the promotion of war,\u201d Assange stated in the filing.<\/p>\n

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Beyond challenging the selection of Mar\u00eda Corina, the WikiLeaks founder questions why the Nobel Foundation did not exercise the same oversight it had in 2018, when it suspended the transfer of the Literature prize. Assange notes that the administrators have a legal obligation to ensure compliance with Alfred Nobel\u2019s will, and that any disbursement contrary to its purpose may constitute a crime.
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The complaint comes amid a major US military escalation in the Caribbean region. Just two days after the Nobel Peace ceremony on December 10, Trump announced that military attacks on Venezuela \u201cwould begin by land.\u201d The deployment of more than 15,000 soldiers, including the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, is considered by analysts to be the largest US military deployment in the Caribbean since the Missile Crisis in 1962.<\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Corina, who has been in exile since July 2024 following coup attempts against Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s reelection, welcomed the mobilization. In an interview with\u00a0CBS, she declared unconditional support for Trump\u2019s strategy and said she aspires to the Venezuelan presidency following a possible foreign intervention.<\/p>\n

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Assange\u2019s own trajectory is also directly shaped by conflicts like those now involving Venezuela. Persecuted for more than a decade for revealing war crimes committed by the US in Afghanistan and Iraq, he spent seven years in asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London and\u00a0five years imprisoned under maximum security\u00a0<\/a> in the United Kingdom.\u00a0Released in June 2024 following a judicial agreement with the US<\/a>, he now lives in Australia, his home country.<\/p>\n

Assange\u2019s criminal complaint against the Nobel Foundation requests, among other measures, that the money be frozen, the medal returned, the foundation members investigated, and that the case potentially be referred to the International Criminal Court. For the activist, the 2025 prize marks a dangerous turning point: \u201cMar\u00eda Corina Machado may have tipped the scales in favor of war, facilitated by the named suspects.\u201d<\/p>\n

First published in Portuguese at\u00a0Brasil de Fato<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION An article from the Peoples Dispatch (reprinted according to Creative Commons \u00a0Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange\u00a0filed a criminal complaint on Tuesday, December 17, against the Nobel Foundation, accusing 30 members of the organization, including its chairwoman and executive director, of involvement in serious crimes under Swedish law. … Continue reading Julian Assange says peace prize has become \u201cinstrument of war\u201d and sues Nobel<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,76],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-37431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","category-global","tag-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37437,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37431\/revisions\/37437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}